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What is systematics? |
a discipline focused on classifying organisms and determining their evolutionary relationships |
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What is a taxon? |
Classifying and naming organisms |
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Who is Carl Linneaus and what did he do? |
Was a swedish botanist who designed a system of naming plants and animals based on 2 kingdoms plantar and animalia taxa |
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What is nomenclature? |
the division or choosing of names for things,especially in a science or other discipline |
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What is the order of taxonomic categories? |
Domain,Kingdom,Phylum,Class,Order,Family,Genus,Species |
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What is the standard for naming new species? |
Name of a new species becomes valid with the date of publication of its formal scientific description |
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What is binomial nomenclature? |
a two word naming system where each species is assigned a two-part scientific name |
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How is binomial nomenclature written? What language? |
The language is written in latin |
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What does polyphyletic mean? |
The evolutionary history of a species or group of species |
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How many Domains are there? |
There are 3 domains and they are Archaea,Bacteria and Eukarya |
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What eukaryotic organisms are single celled and have their own kingdom? |
Eubacteria,archaebacteria,fungi |
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What eukaryotic organisms are autotrophic and have their own kingdom? |
Autotroph,Multicellular,Eukaryotic |
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What physical characteristics of cells separate plant and animal cells? |
Cell Wall Structure |
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What is evolutionary systematics? |
Way to determine natural relationships of organisms by studying a group in detail |
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What does homology mean? |
the quality or condition of being homolugos |
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What does phylogeny mean? |
the branch of biology that deals with phylogenesis |
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Draw a sketch of the fox from the PPT that indicated anatomical direction. Ex. Ventral,Dorasal ect. |
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What is a dichotomous key and what is it used for? |
dichotomus key are used during a field or lab investigations to identity unfamiliar organisms |
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What is a cladogram and what is it used for? |
shows relationships of organisms based on shared characteristics |
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Describe the two methods used to classify animals, physical characteristics/genetics. |
Cladogram and phylogeny tree |
